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Chinese mental health issues in Britain: perspectives from the Chinese Mental Health Association
- Editors:
- YEE Lydia, AU Shun
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Booklet presenting an overview of mental health issues facing the Chinese community in Britain. Includes chapters on: a brief history of the Chinese Mental Health Association; the mental health of Chinese children and young people in Britain; psychiatrists and Chinese mental health; the community mental health nursing perspective; Chinese medicine and mental health; Chinese carers of people with mental health problems; and Chinese elders and their mental health.
A two-year review of an 'open-access' multidisciplinary community psychiatric service for the elderly
- Authors:
- GUPTA Kamal, COUPLAND Lindi, FOTTRELL Eamonn
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11(9), September 1996, pp.795-799.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Presents findings from the first years of a community-based multidisciplinary open access service in an urban area.
A sociology of mental health and illness
- Authors:
- PILGRIM David, ROGERS Anne
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 254p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Provides an overview of the major aspects of the sociology of mental health and illness. Draws on a range of social theories and methods to illustrate points, provides information organised along class, gender, race and age boundaries, and critically analyses the mental health professions. Looks critically at debates around mental health legislation, and examines organisational aspects of psychiatry. Includes a chapter on community mental health work. Concludes with a discussion of the various ways in which psychiatric patients and their relatives can be understood in their social context.
Can multidisciplinary teams carry out competent and safe psychogeriatric assessments in the community?
- Author:
- HERZBERG Joe
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 10(3), March 1995, pp.173-177.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Looks at the development of specialist psychiatric services for older people in the UK. Focuses in particular on: the Lewisham and Guy's Mental Health NHS Trust model in which the first assessment of elderly mentally ill patients is performed by a keyworker who can be a professional from any mental health discipline; the question of who should make the initial assessment; medicolegal aspects of clinical responsibility; and the question of whether community teams are acceptable to GPs. Concludes that there should be research into consumer views of multidisciplinary services.
A slow train coming: bringing the mental health revolution to Scotland
- Editor:
- DEAN Christine
- Publisher:
- Greater Glasgow Community and Mental Health Services NHS Trust
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 232p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Papers from the Scottish Conference on Mental Health held in Glasgow on 21 and 22 October 1993. Speakers included representatives from America and Australia and provided an international debate on community orientated mental health services, as well as focusing on innovations taking place in Glasgow. Includes a paper on forensic psychiatry.